Ishan Technologies - OpenStack Engineer - Cloud Platform

About the Role :

You will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the cloud platform and will play a critical role in architecting, upgrading, enhancing, and integrating key services and components. This includes working with containers, orchestration tools, and software-defined storage solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

- Manage and monitor the Red Hat OpenStack and OpenShift environments with a focus on performance, scalability, and availability.

- Lead cloud capacity planning, infrastructure automation, and high-availability strategies.

- Act as the technical lead for architecture discussions, system upgrades, and platform enhancements.

- Design and manage container-based applications using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, LXC, and LXD.

- Automate container deployment and lifecycle management.

- Support microservices-based architecture deployments and upgrades.

- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Ansible for repeatable deployments, configuration management, and automation.

- Participate in CI/CD pipeline creation and integration with cloud services.

- Ensure secure automation practices are implemented and documented.

- Implement and manage Ceph-based software-defined storage (block, object, and file).

- Optimize storage provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting performance or availability issues.

- Monitor the health of cloud services and proactively respond to infrastructure and application-level incidents.

- Conduct root cause analysis and performance tuning.

- Provide 24x7 support for production platforms as needed.

- Contribute to the cloud product roadmap by identifying new capabilities, third-party integrations, and

industry best practices.
- Evaluate and implement open-source or commercial solutions that enhance cloud platform features.

- Work closely with internal engineering, product, and operations teams for service evolution.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) and Red Hat OpenShift.

- Experience with Linux OS administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).

- Proficiency with containerization technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, LXC/LXD.

- Experience in infrastructure automation using Ansible.

- Practical experience managing and scaling Ceph storage.

- Understanding of cloud network concepts (SDN, load balancers, firewalls, virtual networks).

- Knowledge of virtualization platforms such as KVM or QEMU.

- Solid experience in performance tuning, patch management, and upgrades.